Template:Did you know nominations/Lucian

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Lucian

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Illustration of a battle scene from Lucian's novel A True Story

... that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian wrote the novel A True Story, which is sometimes regarded as the first work of science fiction, in the second century AD? Source: "He anticipated "modern" science fiction themes including voyages to the moon and Venus, extraterrestrial life, interplanetary warfare, and artificial life, nearly two millennia before Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The novel is often regarded as the earliest known work of science fiction.[31][32][33][34][35][36]"
- ALT1:... that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian makes fun of belief in the supernatural in his dialogue The Lover of Lies? Source: "Lucian satirizes belief in the supernatural and paranormal[68] through a framing story in which the main narrator, a skeptic named Tychiades, goes to visit an elderly friend named Eukrates.[69] At Eukrates's house, he encounters a large group of guests who have recently gathered together due to Eukrates suddenly falling ill.[69] The other guests offer Eukrates a variety of folk remedies to help him recover.[69] When Tychiades objects that such remedies do not work, the others all laugh at him[69] and try to persuade him to believe in the supernatural by telling him stories, which grow increasingly ridiculous as the conversation progresses.[69] One of the last stories they tell is the "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", which the German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later adapted into a famous ballad.[70][71]"

Improved to Good Article status by Katolophyromai (talk). Self-nominated at 00:38, 22 February 2018 (UTC).

Substantial article on an interesting life and work, on excellent sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. - I prefer the original hook but think the lovely image is hardly visible this size, and would put us in the wrong period if it was. How about the Latin title page instead? - Or no image? - Bibliography: The first entry is out of alpha order, the second unused. - Thank you for reading pleasure! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:35, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I am very glad that you enjoyed the article. I always love it when other people enjoy reading things I have written. I have now fixed the alphabetical order problem. I have also added some new information to the article that is cited to the source in the bibliography that was previously unused. I do not really care that much about the image; I mostly just nominated it so that we could use it if the reviewer wanted to. If you do not think it will work, I am perfectly fine with that. If you would prefer a different image, I would be fine with that also. --Katolophyromai (talk) 04:57, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Understand. Just yesterday, we had an image on which I saw nothing, but the article still made it to the stats (as I had predicted), why not again? I suggest to crop it - don't need the yellow around it, oo do we? - but may be the only one.